TV Ontario - The View From Here: The Corporation

"Mark Achbar (Manufacturing Consent), Jennifer Abbott (A Cow at My Table), and Joel Bakan's new documentary The Corporation engages us in a darkly amusing account of the corporation's birth as a legal 'person' whose prime directive is to produce ever-increasing profit for its shareholders, regardless of the cost to anyone, or anything else. This documentary examines the legal status of the corporation, and judges the actions of several of the biggest companies against psychological checklists.
Based on the best selling book, 'The Corporation,' and featuring a multitude of interviews with CEO's and top-level executives from some of the worlds largest corporations, representing a wide range of industries, including: oil (Shell), pharmaceuticals (Pfizer), computers (IBM), tires (Goodyear), carpets (Interface), public relations (Burson Marsteller), branding (Landor), and advertising (Initiative); as well as critical thinkers: Noam Chomsky, Peter Drucker, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, Mark Kingwell, Vandana Shiva, and muckraking filmmaker Michael Moore. Add to the mix a corporate spy, an undercover marketer, academics, pundits, historians and activists; deftly blend with newsreel footage, early TV advertisements, B movies, and corporate propaganda films and you have the fascinating, original portrait of an institution that is The Corporation."
(filmwest.com)

Parts 1a+b: The Pathology of Commerce
Parts 2a+b: Planet Inc
Parts 3a+b: The Reckoning

6 MPEG4 videos (320x240, 29.97FPS, 2:58:39 total running time)